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 Hypocritical, Biased, outdated and misleading August 12, 2010
PFH5N1
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book opens with the author explaining his objective analysis of popular fallacies within economics. In no way is this book objective, it is not so much a introduction to economics than a book with a political agenda. He rarely shows two sides of the arguement, spins fact real well all the while omitting valuable information contrary to his veiws. DONT READ THIS AS YOUR FIRST ECONOMICS BOOK, and if you do read it, take it with a grain of salt.
 Comments on Hazlitt's Economics in one Lesson July 23, 2010
Portalis
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Economics in One Lesson is not only easy to read, clear, and to the point. It is reassuring for those people whose common sense is often challenged by the opinions of professional economists and policy makers. It has become a classic more for the coherence of its postulates and their elaboration, than for the math, the graphs, and the jargon that often hide behind a veil of technicalities the actual simplicity of economics.
 Economics demystified July 7, 2010
T. Balfour (Fredericksburg, VA, US)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book in college (some 50 years ago), and it's basic precepts have stuck with me all those years, and have helped me reduce complex issues to fundamental truths. You won't find details of the complexities of all of today's problems, but it will help you better understand them and give you a strong starting point from which to approach them, and to brush aside all the political BS that surrounds them. Politicians and economists-all of them-like to surround their public positions with their own idealogy. This book will help sort out the core issues. You might still agree with the ideology, but at least you will know it when you depart from the basics.
Frighteningly Prophetic July 4, 2010
F. Szarejko (Kansas City, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An easy to understand overview of economics and, when considering the condition we are in today, scary! It explains a great deal about our current economic problems though originally written in the 40's.
 Misleading title July 4, 2010
Ace (Takoma Park, MD)
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book has two major problems.
One, its title is misleading. You think you are getting a quick, shortened version of an economics class, but what you are really getting is a conservative, free market view of the economy. If the title had been, Reasons Why The Free Market Is Better For The Economy, I would have a lot less problem with this book. Balanced, Hazlitt is not, and he takes a lot of potshots at Keynes with only the occasional quick nod to the problems the free market can run into. It's not that I disagree with a lot of his arguments, it's that you don't get both sides.
Two, it's out of date. It was written in the 1940's. Oh, it's been updated alright. In the 1970's. A lot of economic events have occurred since the 1970's and the conservative view has some explaining to do.
If you really want a balanced view of the economy you can check out <50 Economic Ideas You Really Need to Know>. It's balanced, although a bit scatter shot. For a pretty balanced book, but with a left lean, try by Heilbroner and Thurow, it tells a more cohesive story than 50 Ideas.
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